Quotes About Isolation In The Chrysalids

#1. It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Rachel Hartman

#2. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.

William Cowper

#3. Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The obvious is obviously wrong.

Joseph Granville

#5. Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

#6. I made a promise. The kind of promise you don't break because, if you break it you've broken part of yourself, maybe the most important part.

Rick Yancey

#7. You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)

Walter Mosley

#8. I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

Andrew Weil

#9. The more you are at sea,' Sigrud explains, 'the more you learn. And the more you learn, the more help and assistance is a troublesome bother. Dealing death, after all, is a solitary affair.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#10. Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

Publilius Syrus

#11. Remember, he hasn't much imagination. Or, rather, it's been frozen for a long while and hasn't had time to thaw.

Madeleine L'Engle